Thane Blast

A hospital in Mira Road in Thane district on Monday received an email threatening a bomb blast though it was declared a hoax after police carried out a thorough search of the premises, an official said.

The death count in the blast-cum-blaze in Amudan Chemical Pvt Ltd in Dombivli city of Maharashtra's Thane climbed to 13 on Friday even as the police tracked down the two on the run owner-directors from Thane and Nashik, an official said.

A security camera has captured the moments before and after a blast killed at least 10 people at a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Thane yesterday.

A fire broke out at a factory in Thane's Dombiwali near Mumbai after a massive explosion on Thursday.

Two firefighters were injured in Maharashtra's Thane while extinguishing a fire at a shop in Ram Nagar area on Saturday, said Thane Municipal Corporation.

A worker was killed and two others were seriously injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at an industrial unit in Badlapur town here in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, officials said.

The Thane district court Thursday sentenced a man, an accused in a bomb blast case, to life imprisonment for killing another person in order to stage his own death and evade arrest.

The Dubai Police on Saturday detained Anwar Babu Sheikh, the brother of missing mafiosi Chhota Shakeel, reports said. Sheikh, who is wanted in Mumbai and Thane in connection with several offences including the March 1993 Mumbai serials blasts, was detained and questioned by the Dubai Police.

The police custody of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, has been extended by four days by a magistrate's court in Thane today. The police said the probe into an extortion case against him is not yet complete

India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau or IB and the Thane Police's crime branch, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Thane Police arrested Kaskar on September 19 in Mumbai in an alleged extortion case

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar has been arrested in Mumbai in connection with a case of extortion. The arrest was made by Pradeep Sharma, a former encounter specialist who heads the Anti-Extortion cell of the Thane Police.

A Bangladeshi national, who was allegedly involved in terror activities, including bomb blasts, in his home country, was arrested from Thane on Friday, police said.

An old woman was today killed and dozen others including children were injured when the upper floor of a single-storeyed building came crashing down to the ground due to a gas cylinder explosion, disaster management officials said.

The death toll in the boiler blast in a factory at Dombivli in adjoining Thane district climbed to 12 with recovery of another body from the debris today, an NDRF official said.

The death toll in the massive explosion at an industrial unit in Dombivli township of thane district today mounted to eleven and 47 of the 201 injured are undergoing treatment in different hospitals, officials said today.

A hospital in Mira Road in Thane district on Monday received an email threatening a bomb blast though it was declared a hoax after police carried out a thorough search of the premises, an official said.

The death count in the blast-cum-blaze in Amudan Chemical Pvt Ltd in Dombivli city of Maharashtra's Thane climbed to 13 on Friday even as the police tracked down the two on the run owner-directors from Thane and Nashik, an official said.

A security camera has captured the moments before and after a blast killed at least 10 people at a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Thane yesterday.

A fire broke out at a factory in Thane's Dombiwali near Mumbai after a massive explosion on Thursday.

Two firefighters were injured in Maharashtra's Thane while extinguishing a fire at a shop in Ram Nagar area on Saturday, said Thane Municipal Corporation.

A worker was killed and two others were seriously injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at an industrial unit in Badlapur town here in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, officials said.

The Thane district court Thursday sentenced a man, an accused in a bomb blast case, to life imprisonment for killing another person in order to stage his own death and evade arrest.

The Dubai Police on Saturday detained Anwar Babu Sheikh, the brother of missing mafiosi Chhota Shakeel, reports said. Sheikh, who is wanted in Mumbai and Thane in connection with several offences including the March 1993 Mumbai serials blasts, was detained and questioned by the Dubai Police.

The police custody of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, has been extended by four days by a magistrate's court in Thane today. The police said the probe into an extortion case against him is not yet complete

India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau or IB and the Thane Police's crime branch, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Thane Police arrested Kaskar on September 19 in Mumbai in an alleged extortion case

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar has been arrested in Mumbai in connection with a case of extortion. The arrest was made by Pradeep Sharma, a former encounter specialist who heads the Anti-Extortion cell of the Thane Police.

A Bangladeshi national, who was allegedly involved in terror activities, including bomb blasts, in his home country, was arrested from Thane on Friday, police said.

An old woman was today killed and dozen others including children were injured when the upper floor of a single-storeyed building came crashing down to the ground due to a gas cylinder explosion, disaster management officials said.

The death toll in the boiler blast in a factory at Dombivli in adjoining Thane district climbed to 12 with recovery of another body from the debris today, an NDRF official said.

The death toll in the massive explosion at an industrial unit in Dombivli township of thane district today mounted to eleven and 47 of the 201 injured are undergoing treatment in different hospitals, officials said today.